From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Crack \Crack\ (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cracked}
(kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cracking}.] [OE. cracken,
craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to
crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to
rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crake},
{Cracknel}, {Creak}.]
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1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of
the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow;
hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
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O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak.
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He thought none poets till their brains were
cracked. --Roscommon.
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3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to
crack a whip.
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4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
--B. Jonson.
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5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low]
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{To crack a bottle}, to open the bottle and drink its
contents.
{To crack a crib}, to commit burglary. [Slang]
{To crack on}, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more
steam. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
cracking \cracking\ n.
1. the act of cracking something.
Syn: fracture, crack.
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2. (Chem.) the process of making lower molecular weight
hydrocarbons from heavier hydrocarbons in petroleum, by
exposure to heat and catalysts. It is used to convert
heavier alkanes into gasoline, or to improve the octane
number of an alkane mixture.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
cracking \cracking\ adj.
same as {groovy}, sense 1. [informal]
Syn: bang-up, bully, cool, corking, dandy, great, groovy,
keen, neat, nifty, not bad(predicate), peachy, slap-up,
swell, smashing.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cracking
adj 1: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car";
"had a great time at the party"; "you look simply
smashing" [syn: {bang-up}, {bully}, {corking},
{cracking}, {dandy}, {great}, {groovy}, {keen}, {neat},
{nifty}, {not bad(p)}, {peachy}, {slap-up}, {swell},
{smashing}]
n 1: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the
cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"
[syn: {crack}, {cracking}, {snap}]
2: the act of cracking something [syn: {fracture}, {crack},
{cracking}]
3: the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum
are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight
(especially in the oil-refining process)
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
cracking
n.
[very common] The act of breaking into a computer system; what a {cracker}
does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some
mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the
dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit
common weaknesses in the security of target systems. Accordingly, most
crackers are incompetent as hackers. This entry used to say 'mediocre', but
the spread of {rootkit} and other automated cracking has depressed the
average level of skill among crackers.
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